Renowned piano player, vocalist, musicologist, and humorist with a reverent and inventive take on the great American songbook.

Saturday, March 30:
A Juke Joint Jam Session
John Eaton is joined by bassist Tommy Cecil for an evening of their unique jazz improvisations on the great American song book.



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• Just released - John Eaton Presents The American Popular Song: The Classical Connection Volume 6 Vernon Duke & Kurt Weill
• John Eaton has been performing his vast repertoire of jazz, tin pan alley, and ragtime classics in venues ranging from small jazz clubs to the East Room of the White House for more than 30 years.
• He is a member of the official Steinway Concert Artist roster and a fixture of classical music outlets like NPR and Radio Smithsonian.
• His latest release with Wolf Trap Recordings™, 2Sides – Jazz Duets from the Great American Songbook, puts classics like “Sometimes I’m Happy” and “It Might As Well Be Spring” in a fresh, lively new context.
• “Pianist John Eaton practices a special kind of alchemy. He takes the familiar and makes it fresh, renders the old new and exciting. It’s no easy trick, but Eaton is a master at it...”—The Washington Post